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Philosopher

Alasdair MacIntyre, born on January 12, 1929, is a renowned philosopher whose work focuses on moral philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics. He is best known for his revival of traditional virtue ethics and his critical analysis of modern moral issues.

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“Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.”

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Book:After Virtue

Source: After Virtue

“Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.”

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Author:Alasdair MacIntyre

“It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.”

Source: After Virtue

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Born: January 12, 1929
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 39

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After VirtueRelated source material

After Virtue: A Study in Moral TheoryRelated source material

Whose Justice? Which Rationality?Related source material

A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th CenturyRelated source material

Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922Related source material

Herbert MarcuseRelated source material

The Tasks of Philosophy: Volume 1: Selected EssaysRelated source material

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